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Patricia was a very well respected figure in the Boston area.

Smith began her newspaper career as a typist at The Chicago Daily News and then later joined The Globe in 1990,

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In the 1980's Patricia Smith while working at The Chicago Sun, she wrote  a review of a concert that she did not attened to.

.In June of 1998 Patricia Smith fabricated people and quotations in four of her columns in the Boston Globe.

Smith also made up a story about a woman dying from cancer.

She made up Jim Burke, a worker erecting barricades at the Boston Marathon. This was in her column of April 20 1998.

Claire, was the subject of a poignant column about a woman with cancer, that was published on May 11th 1998.

''Claire has been thinking about dying for weeks now,'' Smith wrote, ''ever since her doctor said the tragic word, ever since she found out why she was so woefully tired all the time.''

Revelations about her had came just one week after The New Republic had published the results of the investigation into the work of Stephen Glass.

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-Born on June 25th 1955 in Chicago

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Patricia does not talk about her journalism career anymore or about how her marriage fell apart afterward. She she sank into depression over her self-inflicted wounds and she now prefers to move forward from her mistakes.

Patricia now lives in Howell, New Jersey. She is also now an awarding winning poet with 7 books and  teaches in the MFA program at Sierra Nevada College. Smith is also a professor of creative writing at the City University of New York/College of Staten Island.

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https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/19/us/boston-columnist-is-ousted-for-fabricated-articles.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/nyregion/patricia-smith-finds-solace-and-success-in-poetry.html

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/patricia-smith

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''From time to time in my metro column, to create the desired impact or slam home a salient point, I attributed quotes to people who didn't exist,'' Smith said. Patricia also apologized ''to the grocery clerks and bartenders and single mothers, to the politicians, P.R. flacks, spokespersons and secretaries, to my dear husband and family and friends, I am sorry for betraying your trust."

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She was the first African-American woman to publish a weekly metro column for the Boston Globe